R. Sudarsanam
R. Sudarsanam | |
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Born | Ramakrishna Sudarsanam 26 April 1914 |
Died | 26 March 1991 Chennai | (aged 76)
Nationality | Indian |
Occupation | Music composer |
Children | Sadanandam Sudarsanam |
Ramakrishna Sudarsanam (26 April 1914 – 26 March 1991) was an Indian music composer who had worked in
Career
Ramakrishna Sudarsanam[1] entered the Tamil film industry with Thiruneelakandar in 1939. He was a very talented musician who was spotted by Music Director Sharma Brothers and who into their Music troupe. After getting a lot of experience, he started composing music along with T.A Kalyanam. He became full-fledged music composer in Movie Sakuntalai in 1940. He turned a few songs for this movie but unfortunately, he did not continue with that film due to ill health. Movie producers brought another music composer Rajagopal Sharma for the same film and used already composed Sudarsanam's tunes, but he was not credited.
Later Sudarsanam joined the
He is credited to have composed music for the first movie of stalwart actress and actors like Dr. Rajkumar for Kannada movie Bedara Kannappa, Sivaji Ganesan for Parasakthi, Kamal Hasan for film Kalathur Kannamma, Vaijayanthi Mala for the movie Vaazhkai.[5][6]
He has introduced many singers to the South Indian film industry, and who have come became most popular and has reached great heights in film music few include S. Janaki, T .M. Soundarajan.
Filmography
References
- ^ ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
- ^ "List of Malayalam Songs composed by R Sudarsanam". malayalachalachithram.com. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
- ^ "R.Sudarsanam". Tamil Movies Database. 5 July 2017. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
- ^ "Indian Heritage – Old Thamizh film songs – Music Director – R.Sudarsanam". indian-heritage.org. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
- ^ "Today is the 100th birth anniversary of the legendary composer". behindwoods.com. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
- ^ "AVM, the adventurer". Archived from the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
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